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Underpowered

Somehow we managed to get out of the house extra early today, after a couple days of running behind. They were having some trouble with equipment overheating in the plant, and I pretty quickly got busy with tasks in the office. Heaven had enough trouble with her computer that I decided to rip the bandaid and swap it out with one I found in the upstairs conference room. Unfortunately it had the wrong power supply, and I couldn’t find the correct one anywhere. The computer would come on, but throttle itself to a crawl.

After that, I had to work on the break room signage that wouldn’t accept a presentation update. That update took forever, so I went upstairs to continue working. I had forgotten breakfast, and ended up skipping lunch because Summer said she would be hungry for dinner when she got home around the same time that I normally do.

Heaven’s new computer just barely hit 99% when it was time to go, so I just left it to finish overnight. We got home and Summer was in the shower, so I cleaned up briefly until she was ready for dinner. We ended up going to Brown’s because of how hungry I was, and because I had a coupon.

As I maybe should have predicted, Summer kept fanning herself with the coupon instead of presenting it to the cashier, so I ended up paying full price and didn’t scan my rewards card for points. Hopefully I’ll be able to get credit another way. I felt like a double-sucker when the food was some of the worst we’d had there. It wasn’t terrible, but almost everything was just barely warm. The shrimp was tiny, and it seemed like everything was really mushy, especially considering how busy they were.

We had left Muad’Dib at home alone, so we took him for a short walk up the cul-de-sac when we got back. Eaddie came home and wanted to have friends over to watch a movie, but I don’t think anyone but Eli ever showed up. They ended up disappearing while Summer and I watched Louis C.K.’s new special on Netflix. It was also pretty disappointing compared to the memories of his old stand-up. Then it was off to bed.

meh

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Quiet Focus

I felt like I slept okay even though my mind was reeling all night. I woke up around four and laid awake for most of the next couple hours, then got up and out for work. I forgot the power went out briefly yesterday, which messed up my clock. I was a little later than usual, but still there well before eight.

I had a pretty good, focused day after a bit of frustrating back and forth where our Aptean support just plain didn’t seem to be reading our messages. We still never got a real answer for anything by the end of the day. I had to fight with the laptop I had for Gary, since he decided he wasn’t going to be able to make it in person. I was planning to use him to test some of my recent policy updates as a part of updating for best practices, but instead I got to test something completely different.

The day went by really quickly, but I wanted to get something good for Muad’Dib for lunch since it was his birthday. We shared some chili cheese fries, chicken bites, and even a bit of my burger before heading back. It didn’t feel horribly hot, but it never felt like it got any cooler.

The rest of the afternoon flew by as well, and I didn’t even realize when it was time to leave. We walked out a little later than usual, so I just let the car do its thing most of the way home. Summer had a roast in the slow cooker all day, and Eaddie was having her birthday dinner with Eli’s family instead, so the two of us sat down to eat.

Afterward, I ran Muad’Dib to my parents’ house to help Dad pick up sticks in the front yard before they come over to mow. We didn’t stay long because it was warm, so we headed home and I gave Muad’Dib a much overdue bath. Eaddie had Eli and Mari over for a little while after Summer went to bed, so I tried to get things cleaned up quickly.

I finally got a copy of my new repair estimates for my car, and even found my original copies for the warranty work, but I know I had a check from the insurance company, and I can’t find it or any evidence that I deposited it.

Cheque please!

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Better Take Me First

I think we all slept fairly well last night. I got up and made some breakfast sandwiches for Summer and myself before she wanted to leave for the gym. Eaddie was in bed all day, so I never saw her. Not long after Summer had left for the gym, she called to say they were closed due to a power outage. Instead, she headed to the old house to mow, so I took Muad’Dib over there with the trimmer to get the rest of it cleaned up.

After that short trip, we went to the car wash to wash both of our cars. She went for a Sonic drink before meeting me back at the house, and after a little while we headed over to my parents’ house to swim. Mom was going to have spring rolls, but of course those plans were vague at best.

We ended up staying until it was time to get dinner ready. I sliced a bunch of meat while they went to the store for some more veggies, and eventually Julie and Kevin showed up with the baby. Eaddie and Eli showed up after they did some trimming in our lawn. It was kind of a hot mess with the baby wandering around haphazardly and not having much room on the table for all of the food. We set up a secondary table, but it ended up just being Eaddie and Eli out there.

I helped clean up a bit after everyone was gone, and then I left pretty upset at Kevin’s earlier comments about Muad’Dib. The baby kept going after him, and Muad’Dib was playing nicely, but he and Julie wanted to make a statement about how the baby’s otherwise neglectful family would react if Muad’Dib got aggressive, and I’m not willing to take any chances.

Summer and I went home while Eaddie went to Eli’s. Summer made it to bed quickly, and I wound down a little early myself.

It’s okay. Let’s go home.

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Eager Doggies

We had all kinds of dogs at work today. Joel was back with Dexter. Elizabeth has been bringing Zeke every day. Scott brought Maple, though I hardly saw her at all because she was hiding in Tyler’s office all day. Muad’Dib was having a fit about not being the baby any more.

I had my head stuck in Intune again all day, and had a support call before lunch for my strange PIN policy behavior, but I think I sorted that out earlier. It won’t be until another intermittent issue occurs that I’ll be proven wrong.

We went to Sonic for lunch, then finished up a pretty quiet afternoon. The drive home was fast and mostly dumb. Summer had a late meeting, so I rearranged the dishes in the dishwasher that she had washed and ran them all again. Then I put together a desk hutch I got for her. Just as she got home, I took Muad’Dib to the Neighborhood Market to deposit some bags for recycling. Then we made the trek to my parents’ house just as it was getting dark. Muad’Dib was pretty exhausted by the end of it.

Once home, I tried to quickly wrap things up for bed. I used to have a life.

At least someone’s paying attention.

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PINNNNNNNNNNNN

We stopped at Starbucks for a breakfast wrap and then hit the road where, ironically, I got stuck behind some idiot who was too distracted on her phone to drive. I eventually had to put down my wrap so I could pass her in a huff. We made it to work, and I chatted with David for a bit about his AI endeavors. Muad’Dib was impatient and ran upstairs with Scott, and then snorted at me when I finally made it up there.

Next, I discovered my Chrome had shit the bed, and I lost everything. My additional user profiles were gone, and I lost almost all of my extensions and their data. I still don’t have a clue what happened, but I spent a couple hours recovering from that. Then I was surprised by a prompt to increase my PIN length on one of my test laptops. I fought that for a little while, but eventually created a support ticket for it.

We had to take a late break and went to Taco Bell for a small lunch. Some kid randomly ran around the corner and surprised Muad’Dib, which made him start barking uncontrollably. It wasn’t a vicious bark, and the kid tried to pet him all throughout the event. We made it back to the office to fight my PIN policy some more, and I thought I finally had it figured out, but when I started to leave, I was prompted on my own computer to update my PIN to 14 digits. I was trying to get out, but a quick search gave me an answer that seemed to make sense, so I’ll have to try that fix in the morning.

We made it home after another troubling experience at the onramp leaving Morrilton. It’s such a perfect, long, clear, wide-open stretch of road that you can use to get up to speed, but for some reason these idiots insist on driving 40 all the way up to the Interstate with big traffic coming from the east. I’ll never understand it.

Summer had just barely beat us home, and jumped into the shower once we got inside. We lost power for a few minutes for some reason, but there wasn’t a storm or anything happening. When Summer got out, she was craving a burrito from Taco Villa, so I dug out some cash and drove all the way over there to find out they were closed. I called her, and we ended up going to Panda Express instead. Of course their order status was completely wrong, because I left Muad’Dib outside when it said my order was done. It was about five more minutes before they started plating us up, and then we left.

Summer and I ate, and then we cleaned up and took out the trash before she went to bed. I could have used a walk or something to keep the indigestion at bay, but I ended up going to bed early myself.

Deal, or no deal.

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Just Eat It

I didn’t sleep very well or very long. I didn’t let myself sleep in because I knew I wanted to get some meals in, so I took Muad’Dib outside and then brought some breakfast back upstairs with us. I was really proud of him when he did a great job of sitting by a table alone while I went into the other room to get food. Summer was slow to get out of bed, but then I slowed down a bit as we were trying to get out of the room. We ended up checking out right on time, and made our way down the road to Southern Tail for brunch.

Summer walked up to the front and learned that they were only seating people with reservations, which would have been nice to know before we planned an entire weekend around the event. They didn’t take any of her information, and instead told us to come back around 12:30. We sat in the car until then, but when I walked back in to ask about seating, I was told there was a wait list, and we wouldn’t get a seat until around one. That they the girl got my number and called us back in at 12:35.

We got seated outside as the heat intensified. It wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t fresh feeling. There was a pretty good band playing live, and the food was good though. Service was slow, so we didn’t have much for drinks, but it was an okay time. It might have been worth the price at a better season with some good company.

We headed straight home after that, and had a little bit of time to lounge before heading to my parents’ house to swim. The pool was surprisingly cold, and by then most of it was in the shade. Julie and Kevin eventually showed up with some Popeye’s chicken and we picked at a little bit of food.

I was completely beat by the time we got home, so I shut down quickly and got ready for bed.

What did you expect?

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Strange Alfred

Summer left early for a race in Danville, but I didn’t sleep in very late. She actually got home earlier than I expected, which happened to be right as I woke up, so we got cleaned up and ready to go to Little Rock. We left a little later than I wanted, but we didn’t have a real timeline to stick to until the concert started at eight. I forgot to grab a pair of earplugs for Summer, so we stopped at Walmart in Conway for an overpriced pair of silicone ones.

We made it to Little Rock and stopped at the Bark Bar & Grille. They had an app I had to download to sign up for a membership, but then I had trouble actually purchasing a day pass. There were only two people working, and they didn’t seem super worried about making sure we were registered/paid/vaccinated. They had a “Shortie Smalls” menu and took our food order, and let Muad’Dib run around and make friends. He actually did really well with the other dogs, and wandered around away from us for a while until food showed up.

We ate and left since I felt a little guilty not being able to pay for a day pass. It was about time to check into the hotel, which wasn’t very far away. We got in and discovered that parking was an extra fee. Both chargers were occupied, and also appeared to require payment. We made it up to the room and then went down to swim in the indoor pool for a bit.

Afterward, Summer took a nap until it was time to go to the lounge for a pre-show dinner. I took Muad’Dib out for a break before we left, and met an old couple that were going to the show because he said he had a cousin in the show, though I never learned who that was. Once I put Muad’Dib back in the room, I ordered a pretty cheap Lyft to drive us the mile over the river, and we arrived early enough to be near the front of the line for the Legends Lounge. It was downstairs in a new room we hadn’t seen before, and it was actually a small dinner buffet instead of just finger foods like we had seen before. They had shrimp, polenta, and a fancy salad, plus other veggies and a couple desserts. They even had free wine and beer, but Summer only had a couple of those before we finished up and went back upstairs.

As we were in the merch line, I spotted Jen and Mike walking in, and waved them down. We already had shirts from the Bigger & Weirder tour, so Summer got a keychain and I got a pack of trading cards. Then we found our seats that just happened to be two rows immediately in front of Jen and Mike. We were a little late for Piddles after seeing him at the amphitheater, but I actually liked him quite a lot more at this venue. It was a good, long show, and I was surprised at how many empty seats were still open in front of us. Nobody was checking, so we could have easily gone down to sit closer, but we didn’t.

Getting out was easy with such a relatively small crowd. We decided to just walk the mile back, but I didn’t realize we would have to climb a bunch of stairs to cross the bridge. We eventually made it back after walking through the teardown of the weekend Juneteenth celebration downtown. It stank everywhere, but we got out alive. I got to move my car to one of the chargers, so we’ll be set by the morning. I ran into the old couple again while I was out with Muad’Dib, and they only seemed mildly entertained, remarking that the show was super long and could have been cut down to about 45 minutes.

Summer didn’t take long to pass out. I showered the sweat off, and dawdled a bit too long before making it to bed.

scritch

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Import-ant

We had a little bit of rain this morning, but nothing more than a sprinkle. We got there early and went straight upstairs where I thought I was going to easily have an import ready into the sandbox. Boy, was I wrong. I got Tammy to come upstairs to talk to me about it for a while, and I think I finally understood enough to continue on with my test. Muad’Dib didn’t like her there, or anyone else for that matter. He jumped and snipped at her, so he was in trouble for the rest of the day.

We went to Sonic for a small, cheap lunch, but then grabbed some curly fries from Arby’s on the way back. I fought with Traverse, Excel, and everything else the rest of the afternoon. I ended up leaving a little later and walked out with everyone else, but that meant traffic was a little better somehow. For some reason, my car didn’t have a data connection for navigation, even though streaming music and everything else was still working.

We made it home where Eaddie had Eli and Ceci over. Summer was in a bath, but eventually came out to have dinner with me. I was frustrated with Eaddie for still not having my earplugs, and she kept giving both of us attitude when we asked about them. We have a concert next weekend, and there’s no reason I shouldn’t have what’s mine.

I eventually drained the basement again while I took Muad’Dib out for a late run, finishing up in the dark. Then I did some more cleanup and reviews until a late bedtime as my legs continued to swell from being out of my hydrochlorothiazide.

And now we’re out of lisinopril, too.

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They-Merch

Summer got up to make pancakes this morning, but realized that she had almost none of the ingredients she needed. Evidently she planned to have Eaddie go fetch what was missing when she left to go pick up her car that she didn’t bring home for some reason, and Eaddie didn’t get the memo that we were waiting on her to be able to cook said breakfast. I pushed Summer to call her back, and of course she didn’t answer her phone. By then it was nearly time to get ready to leave for our matinee of Masters of the Universe, but she insisted that she wanted to go pick up the ingredients herself and at least make eggs, sausage, and toast.

We had breakfast, I got cleaned up, and we left for Conway. We arrived with time to get snacks, upgrade Summer to a collectible cup, and catch the few previews that played between a bunch of other commercials.

I kind of wanted to see the movie, but I wasn’t nearly as excited as Summer. I still couldn’t believe she grew up completely unaware of the original movie, and I knew nothing of the cartoon. She only knew the cartoon. It was a fun movie that didn’t take itself seriously at all, though not to the extent that Barbie didn’t. It was entertaining, and the best role I’ve personally seen Jared Leto play.

After the movie, we headed to Sam’s Club to see what they had, and then we landed at Chuy’s for dinner. Summer loved how fabulous our server was, and we both had food to take home. Muad’Dib was incredibly excited to see us, so I let him run alongside me as I took the baby robot mower to my parents’ house. Then I took him on a short ride around the block on the Onewheel.

Summer had long been in bed, but I managed to get things cleaned up, fight with the garage door remote programming, and get ready for work in the morning in record time, and then headed to bed myself.

Life is a series of absurdities leading to infinite nothingness.

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The Ugg

I slept a bit more than usual last night and felt pretty good for it. When we got to work, we were greeted by another introduction email from our newest Dell rep – our sixth since I started 11 months ago. I kindly asked her to stop contacting us because I prefer to work with Howard, and she later called to get my rep’s information “to ensure we got our discounts.” I assumed that meant deal registration was a thing outside of the school world, and carried on.

We tinkered with Intune all day, aside from lunch at Sonic. One of the girls offered a pup cup, and then never returned with it. I don’t know if she was told not to, or if she just never had time since they were fairly busy running food in and out. We ate, then went back too continue tinkering with policies.

The drive home was irregularly fast when a couple large SUVs blew past me at nearly 100. I tagged along a ways behind, slowing down as I passed other cars, so as not to be a complete tool. Summer picked up some chicken to cook for salads and we had a great, healthy dinner before I started the sump pump again and took Muad’Dib out for his run.

We weren’t very far along when we spied Grant’s sister blow by us and start blaring her horn in their driveway. Concerned, we ran up to see if everything was okay. I did not expect her to get out of the car and come at me yelling. She made a comment about how many times she hadn’t hit us in the road, as though not committing vehicular manslaughter made her some kind of a saint. When their mom finally came out, I waved at her and let them be, but after we rounded the next corner, we saw her fly through the next intersection in a huff.

We finally made it to my parents’ house, and I pulled the pool robot out for a cleaning. We weren’t there long before it started to rain, so we left in a hurry. Of course the rain just came in harder and we arrived at home completely soaked. I sent Muad’Dib in for Summer to give him a bath while I went out to clean up the sump line. She was nearly done by the time I got back in, and then I took over drying him.

Eaddie was in and out, to see her grandparents. I rushed too get to bed, hoping for a repeat of a good night’s sleep.

And I thought they were ugly… on the outside!